Not as quick as I intended but definitely dirty, here's a stab at a weeknotes blog post

Played with Meshtastic, roasted some coffee, fixed (and broke) Fossilizer, and started messing with garden irrigation. Just trying to get stuff out of my head and onto the web again.

blog.lmorchard.com/2025/04/18/

Spent a bunch of time trying to get a little inline image gallery widget working before kind of giving up. Also realized I'd uploaded full quality images from my phone at tens of megabytes. Will have to run those through an optimizer script next time, but tried to carve them down manually this time

@tankgrrl all the cool kids are doing it, all of a sudden!

I have a 3D printer and I have never printed a flexi dragon

@awilbert Well, now that I've done too many times 😅

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Les Orchard

why do I suddenly want to play terraria?

Aw, bummer: Set up a BBS on a node at home, played with it a bit from downstairs.

Then, took a bike ride across the river. Tried pinging it with my away-node from the waterfront, but no joy. Too many hops away, I guess? Still learning the ropes

@mhoye Paul Graham, realizing he's caught, explodes into a cloud of 15 ravens

@Osmose You might wanna start with some multimeter basics like this. Introduces some electronics & circuit basics, but focuses on the different settings

learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/h

@Osmose Depending on what you're repairing, you can get pretty far with basic continuity checks to find broken connections and testing if resistors have burned to a short

2025/04/20